head:
the most important element
in a phrase or other complex structure,
whose basic
characteristics (general meaning, syntactic class) are retained in the complex structure as a
whole.
Noun phrases (or nominal phrases) are headed by a
noun,
verb phrases and
clauses are headed by a
verb, adjective phrases
by an
adjective, and so forth.
Contrast
complement,
modifier.
[Spanish:
cabeza]